AND Car owner Richard Childress is known for making major changes to his race teams when he returns from hunting trips. But after bagging an 1,800-pound polar bear in Alaska during the Nextel Cup circuit’s Easter break, Childress didn’t return to the shop as loaded for bear as he was after a hunting trip in 2002. That year he swapped the crews of the cars driven by Kevin Harvick and Robby Gordon. Childress said he did a lot of thinking about his teams while out in the wild. “We’re going to be doing some internal stuff for sure,” he said. “There will be some changes.” But he said drivers Johnny Sauter and Robby Gordon are safe in their current positions. “If there would have been a driver change, I would have made it when I came back last week,” Childress said. “It’s too early to make any decision on driver changes.”(Atlanta Journal Constitution)(4-19-2004)
Gordon and Sauter deemed ‘safe’ despite rumors:
AND Car owner Richard Childress is known for making major changes to his race teams when he returns from hunting trips. But after bagging an 1,800-pound polar bear in Alaska during the Nextel Cup circuit’s Easter break, Childress didn’t return to the shop as loaded for bear as he was after a hunting trip in 2002. That year he swapped the crews of the cars driven by Kevin Harvick and Robby Gordon. Childress said he did a lot of thinking about his teams while out in the wild. “We’re going to be doing some internal stuff for sure,” he said. “There will be some changes.” But he said drivers Johnny Sauter and Robby Gordon are safe in their current positions. “If there would have been a driver change, I would have made it when I came back last week,” Childress said. “It’s too early to make any decision on driver changes.”(Atlanta Journal Constitution)(4-19-2004)